Breakthrough in Electricity-Producing Microbe

University of Massachusetts researchers have made a breakthrough with "Geobacter," a microbe that produces electric current from mud and wastewater. A conservative estimate puts the energy output increase at eight times that of the original organism, potentially allowing applications far beyond that of extracting electricity from mud. "Now, planning can move forward to design microbial fuel cells that convert waste water and renewable biomass to electricity, treat a single home's waste while producing localized power (especially attractive in developing countries), power mobile electronics, vehicles and implanted medical devices, and drive bioremediation of contaminated environments."

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Won't happen...

[Poingggg]

Sorry guys, dream on. As soon as Big Oil cs gets its sticky little hands on it, it'll be over for as long as there is still one cent of profit to get out of oil. Free energy will stay a dream as long as there is are powerful firms who can force you to buy it from them and who can buy everything that threatens their profits (including politicians).
This is not meant as flamebait or trolling, I'm just afraid this is the sad truth.